Love and War
Chapter 2: Dislestia
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Chapter 2: Dislestia
"Hahahahaha! Look Tia, it's Twilight!" Discord said, holding a picture of something that looked...somewhat like Twilight. It was a fat purple circle with navy blue and pink lines for hair, along with giants, purple wings. Celestia couldn't help but stifle a laugh. Ever since there childhood, Discord had always been able to make her laugh. "Ha! Got ya! I made YOU laugh!" Celestia just rolled her eyes. Discord took a great pleasure in making Celestia laugh, because "She was too serious".
"May I have another cup of coffee?" Asked the Princess, levitating her coffee cup toward one of the chefs in the kitchen. "Of course, your highness" and the colt scrambled away. "Look it's Fluttershy!" Now, Discord had fallen over laughing. He dropped the notebook in front Celestia, who chuckled when she saw the picture of Fluttershy. The drawing looked a lot like Twilight's had, but in Fluttershy's colors, of course. But she had a very, very angry look on her face.
"Here, your highness." Said the chef, returning with her coffee. "Would you like more pancakes?" Asked the chef. Celestia thought a moment. "Sure." She said, handing the chef her plate. "Isn't it hilarious?!" He asked, clearly getting over his laughter. He got off the floor and took back his notebook, where he was scribbling away.
Just as quick as he had gone, the chef returned with a plate of freshly made pancakes, syrup on the side, and buttered to perfection. "I'm sorry it took so long, Princess."
Celestia simply laughed "That was the speediest thing I've ever seen!" She said, levitating her fork to her mouth. "Thank you, Princess."
"It's just not fair!" Said Discord, slamming his notebook and crayons on the table "Why don't they address me with 'Your highness' and stuff?!" Celestia smiled. Typical Discord, always thinking the world revolved around him.
"I was a Prince, remember Tia?" Said Discord. He was referring to the old days, of course.
"And then you turned evil and tried to change all reality." Celestia pointed out, shivering at the thoughts. The second time around, Discord caused a lot less chaos then the first time.
"Well so did Luna, and she tried to kill you! I just wanted to marry you. Actually, I kind of still do." Discord leaned close to Celestia, who didn't pull away, but instead glared at him. The look. "Tia, stop! I'm trying to be...romantic." And Discord wrapped his arms around Celestia's shoulder.
"We went over this the day you became reformed. I will not marry you Discord!" The chefs seemed to be gossiping, all hearing what Celestia and Discord were saying, but trying to hide it.
"But...I've CHANGED. I still cause chaos, just a lot less-"
"That doesn't change anything." The Princess said, taking her last bite of pancake. Discord stomped his feet, shaking the whole table, and causing many chefs to jump in panic. "If you'll excuse me...I have work to do. But you will marry me, Celestia. Eventually." The draconequus snapped his fingers, and then he was gone.
The white alicorn sighed. Ever since having been reformed, Discord had been trying to marry her. Even before that, actually, when he tried to take over Equestria, he had proposed to Celestia.
"Princess, are you done?" Asked one of the chefs, motioning toward her empty plate. "Ummm...yes." The chef levitated the plate away. Celestia sighed. Now she had to go to Morning Court.
Princess Celestia actually really enjoyed morning court. It was nice, meeting and talking to ponies that lived in her kingdom. But Luna thought totally different, and wanted to get rid of Night Court forever. Celestia sighed. "Guard..."
"Yes Princess?"
"Tell everypony Morning Court is cancelled, and if anypony really needs something, they can come back at seven for Night Court, or see me tomorrow." The guard nodded, and ran off, looking for the other guards.
The alicorn rose from her seat, and teleported into the library. She planned to relax and read a few books..."PRINCESS! Princess, Princess Celestia...there's something you should see..." The mare in front of her door was one of Celestia's assistants, and she was levitating a magazine.
The Solar Princess rose from her comfortable bean bag on the floor, and took hold of the magazine. The magazine was "Ponies Weekly" and on the cover was a picture of Princess Luna dancing and drinking.
"Is that..."
"I'm afraid so, Princess..." Anger and rage boiled up inside of Celestia. How could Luna do this? A royal pony, doing something like THIS? Drinking and partying at a nightclub?
Celestia skipped to page twenty-eight were Luna was featured. The magazine said; "Princess Luna sure does know how to party! Last night, Princess Luna showed off her wild side at the "Lunessa" nightclub in Canterlot. Sources say a certain colt, who just so happens to be a royal guard, bought the Princess multiple drinks. "Yeah, me and Bronzy here were fighting and Luna broke it up. Now we're like, friends." Says Alana, age 23."
There was a lot more to the article, but Celestia was just to angry to read it! She levitated the magazine with her and teleported to Luna's bedroom.
The Moon Princess was sleeping peacefully at the moment, but that wouldn't last. "Luna...Luna...Looona...LUNA!" Princess Celestia exclaimed in te royal Canterlot voice. It had been a very long time since she had actually even used that tone of voice...
The dark alicorn awoke with a start, and stared at her sister with a look of terror on her face. "You know...about last night don't you?" She said. "Luna...why would you do something so STUPID? We've worked so hard on your reputation, and your just ruining everything! Do you've any idea how ponies are going to look at you now? Hmmm?" The younger sister rolled her eyes "I can't take this Tia! Always being cooped up in this stupid castle!
"It pretty and all, but I can't just stay here forever! Don't you remember when we were young, and we used to all go out at night and just have fun?"
"We don't get to do that anymore, Luna-"
"Just because we're royal, doesn't mean we can't have fun. I didn't plan to go clubbing, I promise. All I did was take a fly around Canterlot and then they all saw me, asked me if I wanted to get a drink..."
"If you wanted a drink you could have asked me!" Celestia said. "I have lots of liquor in my bedroom! Ad Luna...are you even old enough to drink?" Celestia asked.
"I'm about one thousand years old, Tia. Yes, I am qualified to drink. And I wasn't drunk, just buzzed. Now can you leave? I have a hangover." Celestia gave a last glare at Luna and then smiled. "Your grounded."
Luna snorted in laughter. "I am over one thousand years old. You can't ground me. Besides, your just my sister." Luna shook her head.
"Fine but...no more sneaking out! And what was the name of that guard you met at the bar?" Luna went into a laughing fit "I don't know Tia! I hardly remember anything from that night." But that was a lie. Luna remembered every detail.
"Fine...sleep sister."
"Can you get me some meds for the hangover?"
"No, that's your punishment." Luna grinned. Tia truly could be stubborn at times.
The princess left her sister's room, feeling somewhat satisfied. She was still a little angry, and had no idea how ponies would react to Luna's little night out. And she still didn't know what guard had been with Luna. Surely it was a guard off-duty, but many guards had been off that night. And the princess still just got the feeling she knew a lot more than she was saying, but Luna was really good at lying.
"Your highness, somepony is here to see you, and they just couldn't wait..."
"Princess!" Celestia didn't recognize the pony in front of her, but the mare was obviously in a lot of shock. "I must speak with you in private!"
"Thank you for taking her here Speedy, now go back to your post." The guard nodded and then flew away.
The alicorn led the unicorn mare to the library, and as soon as she shy the door, the mare began to speak, "My name is Blue Star, an I have reason to believe there is trouble in the Everfree!" She exclaimed. "I live very close to the Everfree. Every once and a while, I go to study there, just to take a walk. I am studying magic, and very fascinated in the forest." Now she looked nervous, on the verge if tears really, "I believe there is a biasma in there." The mare choked out.
"Impossible. The biasma are extinct." Celestia recalled the biasma...vicious creatures. None of them had their own individual minds, they all followed orders from there leader, Greyghost. They couldn't love, hate, or feel any emotion. They were something between life and death, and, since they didn't have their own body, they had to feed off the life energy of living things.
"Then explain this to me!" The mare dug through her saddlebags and pulled out...a squirrel. But the squirrel was completely lifeless. It was stiff, cold, and...completely gray. Not a splash of color on it. "Where-where did you get this?" The princess asked, examining the creature. "In the Everfree."
"Thank you, Blue Star. You may leave now. And I advise you to stay away from the forest."
"I wouldn't even consider returning." Celestia turned to the guards "Escort her out. And alert the other guards that we will have a meeting at sunset." One guard escorted Blue Star to the exit, and another went to find Shining Armor.
This can't be happening! Celestia thought. How was this even possible, the biasma had been extinct for over one thousand years. It seemed strange that they could just somehow...return. The only way they could return was if they were somehow summoned, but the only pony able to do that spell had to be very powerful, probably an alicorn, or a very strong unicorn. Could Luna have done it? No. Certainly not Cadence.
The Princess recalled the first time around, when the biasma came and sucked the life out of all her subjects. A war then started and together, Celestia and Luna banished them. But she wasn't even sure were they went.
"What's wrong Tia, you look stressed?" Celestia whipped around, only to see Discord standing right behind her.
"Discord! Don't scare me like that!" Discord chuckled. "Come on, Tia, we all know that's my thing. But...why so upset?" The princess began to debate on whether or not to tell him. How would he react?
"Equestria is in trouble." Celestia said, now pacing back and forth. "Nothing the Elements can't handle, I'm sure. Or maybe even you and Luna. Haha! Speaking of which I heard about Luna's Night Out..."
"Discord! This is serious! If you must know, the biasma have returned!" The alicorn exclaimed, stomping her hoof. Discord's face went stone cold. "How do you know that?" The draconequus said. "A mare told me. She lives by the Everfree."
Discord cracked a smile. "Do you even know who this mare is? How do you know she's not lying just to get attention?" Celestia had officially reached her boiling point. First Luna's little party, then the return of the biasma, and now Discord was making jokes!
"EXPLAIN this then Discord, explain it!" Using her magic, the Princess threw the dead squirrel at Discord, who caught it. "Oh my..." Celestia had officially had enough. She broke down in tears, and Discord just sorta scratched his head. He didn't know what to do!
"Oh...ummm...Tia. It's ok. Shhhh." He said, all the while patting her on the back. "It's ummm...gonna be ok. We can defeat the biasma, we did it once, we can surely do it again." But Celestia wasn't saying anything. She continued to cry, and Discord knew what he had to do. He hugged her. "I know what will cheer you up!" Discord exclaimed.
"Cotton candy and chocolate milk, won't help, Discord." Discord gave a mischievous grin. I had something else in mind..." He snapped his fingers and Celestia appeared in his arms, he was cradling her. "Discord-"
"Let me do the talking. He snapped his fingers once more and they came to a new room...Celestia's room. "DISCORD! No! I can't-"
"Celestia, you are over one thousand years old. When was the last time you had fun?" It was true. How many years had it been since she had done...it?
"I knew you'd agree."
Author's Note
Well who did you think would be Celestia's baby daddy? Anyway, wrote this on my phone, to lazy to proofread, enjoy, etc.
This actually took a lot less time than I thought it would. Chapter 3 coming whenever I say so.
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